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77 Wyclif's sanction of the old threefold division only perpetuates the old evil which Christ came to abolish. He came to make men free:

God's wrath will punish terribly the ruling upper class which abetted social exploitation:

Chelc̄icky̍'s socialism is not a dialectic materialism; to speak figuratively, he stands on firm Biblical ground and examines his contemporary society with a strong searchlight of Christ's ethic. What he finds is devastating, and his conclusions are more radical than those of Marx or Lenin. Christian faith is dead unless it can show fruits Chap.XXXVII, p.166*

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